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A Greenland Shark from the Wreck of the SS Central America at 2,200 Meters
Author(s) -
Herdendorf Charles E.,
Berra Tim M.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
transactions of the american fisheries society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.696
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1548-8659
pISSN - 0002-8487
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8659(1995)124<0950:agsftw>2.3.co;2
Subject(s) - archaeology , oceanography , geography , fishery , south carolina , geology , biology , public administration , political science
The three‐masted, wooden‐hulled steamship Central America sank in 1857 during a hurricane 370 km east of Savannah, Georgia. During a recovery project begun in 1988, the unmanned research submersible Nemo equipped with video and still cameras filmed a 6‐m‐long, male Greenland shark Somniosus microcephalus at the 2,200‐m‐deep wreck site. The depth is 1,000 m deeper than the maximum reported depth for this species. The Savannah location is 440 km further south than the previously known North Carolina records for the Greenland shark.